How Sukhbir voted against farm Bills when voting never held: Bittu

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, September 24

Ludhiana Member of Parliament (MP) Ravneet Singh Bittu on Thursday slammed Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal and asked him to clarify that how could he voted against the new farm ordinances when the voting was never held.

In a statement issued here, the Congress leader accused Sukhbir, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Parkash Singh Badal of misleading people to save their crumbling party by making false statements repeatedly that they as MPs had voted against the farm ordinances.

“While the fact is Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre did not consider necessary to hold voting,” he said.

Bittu said even if it was assumed that Sukhbir had voted against the ordinances, he should also make it clear whether his wife and MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, when she was Union Minister, had voted against or in favour of the ordinances.

“Had Harsimrat Kaur resigned from the post of the Union Minister before the ordinances were introduced in the House, the situation would have been in favour of farmers,” he added.

Bittu alleged that the Shiromani Akali Dal and Bharatiya Janata Party were the two sides of the same coin on the issue of the ordinances and this was the reason that Harsimrat Kaur has resigned after the ordinances were passed.

He said the Badal family had shown their “real anti-farmer face” to people.

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